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Germany shutting down last nuclear power plants on April 15th
Neutrion:
And how much outage would mean the refuelling? If the aim is to make it work for another 1-2 years? Would the costs, risk or time to do it enormus?
And what if that decision had been made immediately after the government got the results of the studies regarding the possible enlenghtening of the usage of the plants?
If there would be a political will, could it be made economically feasible in a timeframe and for costs that would beat power to gas initiatives (or maybe renewables)during the same time period?
Siwastaja:
These plants are designed to operate safely for much more than half a century. It's not that extending the operational life by "a few years" is any problem. It's extension after extension after extension after extension which gradually becomes a problem. AFAIK, this practice is being critiqued in the USA.
Perkele:
"Yes, Minister" was a documentary, it seems.
Toxic cloud above Poland from coal burning will double its size.
And it's not like the winds are respecting state borders.
Oh, well, whatever keeps the voters happy...
rf-messkopf:
--- Quote from: Neutrion on April 11, 2023, 03:52:10 pm ---And how much outage would mean the refuelling? If the aim is to make it work for another 1-2 years? Would the costs, risk or time to do it enormus?
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A normal scheduled refueling outage with annual plant revision takes roughly between 10 and 20 days, maybe somewhat longer when particular work is to be done. The thing is that no such outage is planned for. And new fuel is not purchased via online order with same-day delivery. So no idea how long that would take given the current circumstances. But that is surely not a matter of a couple of weeks, even if the political will was there.
Neutrion:
But I mean with the needed maintenance for the few years extra running time. Because for me it is not clear wheter this is a pure political decision, and you only had to change the fuel, or it is such an enormous cost or time issue which makes it uncompetitive with other solutions.
Besides I really can't understand, why this few GW needs to be subsituted so immediately with coal, it is about 5% of Germany's need so not so systemrelevant.
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